Palcoco

Palcoco is a village in the department of La Paz in the highlands of South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Palcoco is located in the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Batallas in the province of Los Andes on the left bank of the Río Condoriri, a direct tributary to Lake Titicaca. The village lies at an altitude of 3986 m on the Bolivian Altiplano twenty kilometers south-east of Lake Titicaca.

Geography

Palcoco located on the Bolivian plateau between the Andes mountain ranges, the Cordillera Occidental and the Cordillera Central in the west to the east. The region has a pronounced diurnal climate in which the mean temperature fluctuations during the day be more pronounced than in sequence.

The average annual temperature of the region is located at 9 ° C, the average monthly values ​​vary only slightly between 6 ° C in July and 10 ° C in November and December (see climate chart Batallas ). The annual precipitation is about 600 mm, the monthly rainfall range from less than 15 mm during the months of June to August and between 100 and 120 mm from December to February.

Traffic network

Palcoco lies at a distance of 43 kilometers of road north-west of La Paz, the capital of the department of the same name.

From La Paz the highway Ruta 2 through El Alto and Villa Vilaque leads in a northwesterly direction to Patamanta and Palcoco and from there via Batallas and Huarina to Copacabana on Lake Titicaca.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades by more than two-thirds:

Because of the historical population growth, the region has a high proportion of Aymara population in the municipality of Batallas 93.9 percent of the population speak the Aymara language.